The Portland daily press., 1887-03-09
FROM NEW YORK.
Three People Killed on the Elevated
Railroad.

NEW YORK, March S.-Fire this morning
in the store of Nichols, the tailor. in the
Bowery, caused a loss of between $4,000 and
blocked by the flames. The blockade ex-
tended all the way down to the south ferry
and on the down track up to 18th street. A
number Of the passengers left one of the
trains at 18th street, and started to walk
along the narrow foot path at the side of the
track to the station at 14th street While
doing so the blockade was raised and the
trains began to start. Their motion shook
the pathway to such an extent that a number
OF passengers were thrown down to the
street below. Three of these were Instantly
killed and seven others badly injured.
A Delayed Mail from South America.
NEW YORK, March S.-The steamer Ad-
vance, which arrived in this port yesterday
York Office nine bags of mail from Valpara-
iso, Chill, which, owing to the prevalence of
cholera on the Pacific coast of South Amerl-
ca, instead of being forwarded as usual via
the isthmus had been forwarded via Cape
Horn to Rio de Janerio. In addition to the
regular mail from Chilli to this country there
were received closed mails for Guayaquil,
Ecuador, Panama, Puerto Cabello, VeneZu-
ella, Mexico, Corinto. Nicaragua, San Jose,
Guatemala, Honduras and San Salvador.
The Valparaiso dates received were of Jan.
Is, showing that the mail was despatched
from that port per steamer Galicia via Cape
Horn, being % days In transit to Rio, and
thence 26 days to this port, in all 53 days
from Valparaiso. The ordinary transit via
the lsthmus is made in about Sc days. The
latest previous dates from Chill were of De-
cember %, and were received at the New
York Post Office, Feb. g.
The Great Yacht Race.
NEW YORK, March s.-The race between
the yachts Coronet and Dauntless will be
started at 10 O'Clock Thursday, if the wind
and the weather are favorable.
It is now stated that owing to alterations
to be made in the foresail of the Dauntless
that the yacht will not be ready for the ocean
race till March II.
A Business Suspension.
Messrs. Tompkins & Harris, scalpers in
the grain trade, were posted this afternoon
at the Produce Exchange as unable to meet
their contracts. Their liabilities are un-
known.
Base Ball Matters.
The National Base Ball League convention
discussed many matters to-day, but did little
else. The st. Louis club accepted the league
offer of $4,000, and the indianapolis club
was then formally admitted. The players,
over whom there has been so much fighting,
will all go to the new club, and indianapolis
cannot sell them to any other club for one
year. Little trouble was expected with
Kansas City, yet the cow boys made the
most trouble of all. The league offered the
Kansas City club $4,000 for their franchise
and players, but it was not accepted. The
league then offered $4,000 for McQueery,
Bassett Donelly, Whitney, Myers and Rad
| ford, and $500 for the five without Radford,
dianapolis club will get these players
| Myers, Hackett and Graves, c.; Healy, Ker-
| by, Boyle and Weiman, p; Shomberg, 1b.
| Bass, 2b; Denny, 3b; Glasscock, S.; Cahill,
ington club win get Whitney, p.; Almyecs,
| I'd; Donnelly. Sd O'Brien, C. The schedule
| of games will be adopted tomorrow.